General Kenobi
(I can’t help)
Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.
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General Kenobi
(I can’t help)
I just assume anything that promises free stuff on Instagram reels is in fact a scam or a hack.
Also I’m not getting on that shit site to confirm it’s true.
Israel has a history of ostracising those they deem “cowards” in society.
Just look into how they remembered the Holocaust and how they treated the survivors.
I both hope those brave soldiers stay in Israel to lead a change and hope they don’t let the state crush them with the gleeful support of the fascist civilian population.
I’m inclined to believe not a single actually suicidal person received one of these messages.
You can’t automate concern for fellow humans.
Lots of places do a better job providing DRM free or DRM Lite ebooks (Chicago press only ties your name to the files so you’d have to doxx yourself to share it, but you can share it), but the sheer library of self published books on Amazon is hard to find.
There’s an author I’ve become good friends with who I pay him (in coffee) for his books because I disagree with giving Amazon a cent. But he noted that’s just where the masses are still and it’s hard to break that momentum.
Linux everywhere and then Windows VM labeled “Shitty Spyware Do Not Open”
Personally I’m a huge fan of the Alcoholics Anonymous understanding of “god” and I think it applies more widely.
In AA it is supposed to be A-religious so as to accommodate as many people as possible. To them, god is whatever higher power you need to put your faith into to do better. An entity who you are striving to make proud or you are asking for guidance or help, etc.
This genericized god idea kinda gives up the game to me as an atheist, but it doesn’t mean it’s bad. In fact it’s made me believe in god as an idea.
There are plenty of studies on “manifesting” goals and how saying out loud to yourself or to someone at all substantially increases your chance of succeeding in your goal. This is just prayer or a magic spell or whatever else you wanna call it. I call it a ritual.
The fact that god is a made up idea has been uncontested in my mind for eons, however the psychological power of a belief in god is new to me and makes me appreciate the systems of religion more (doesn’t excuse a lot of their bullshit).
I mean you can always use the web version of office for 'free" with a Microsoft account. There’s a 100% chance your paper gets used to train AI but still
What’s happening in Ukraine sucks
That doesn’t contradict the sentiment that borders are generally arbitrary lines designed to divide us.
Using a Russian sure to get free books doesn’t hurt Ukraine unless these are all like infected with Russian turbo malware or something
Online book clubs are kind of a thing.
Welcome to Lemmy, just find a community and start chatting. If it’s dead/empty, start filling it.
I try to open myself up to people as best I can here and on Mastodon just because we’re pretty used to the algorithm TM deciding who we talk to or where we engage for a long time now and I don’t think we are collectively ready to have non-hostile “discussions” in that we just don’t know how to do it.
What’s been on your mind? If you don’t wanna share here try the casual conversations community. They might be better to receive you.
I took 5 years to consecutively not get a degree and I’m about to go back to finish 5 years later.
Yeah it sticks not graduating with the people you started with, but that really isn’t any more of a signifier of success or failure than graduating at all.
Sometimes things happen and at that point everyone is mature enough to but be a dick.
Couple things
Start applying for things you’re not sure and you know you aren’t qualified for. Often recruiters or HR people don’t actually know what the fuck the job needs and just sorta copies similar job titles recs. Once you’re able to talk to the actual hiring manager, then you can see if you’re a good culture fit and if they can give you some on the job training.
Get a job at something not really what you wanna do but feels related enough. For me, my big break into my career was working at a call center for a hospital. It was not IT related, but it got me office experience that I spun into IT experience.
Before ever game of classical chess I play over the board I coat my opponents pieces in DMT.
Eventually it gets absorbs through their skin and I can convince them it’s all a nightmare that only ends if they resign.
I call it the MK Ultra gambit
My last job had a massive wall of screens. And it was explicitly to impress government officials.
It had a news live stream playing (cycling between CNN, MSNBC, and ABC News), the weather, live camera feeds of both our on site and offsite DR data center, as well as live feed of our store room and basement (where all the cooling and power was routed). The screens also displayed all of our dashboards like nagios, Citrix, and Oracle. There was one that gave alerts if a system was down.
And this was all displayed on an array of 3 rows and 4 columns of 55 inch TVs using a chrome extension called “Revolver” to cycle through.
We actually only used like 3 of the total 20 rotating screens and it was way more efficient to have them running on my own 55" TV as a monitor just using power toys to give it a dedicated corner and then the rest could do emails and news.
BBC from a distant corner!
Oh no the white queen is getting blacked!
He brought a CUCK CHAIR it’s over folks!
This is something I tell people all the time. It’s just as easy to troubleshoot on Linux as it is on Windows the biggest issue is that most people are just kinda innately aware of Windows troubleshooting by virtue of the fact that they’ve been doing it for so long. Linux is probably just as complicated skill wise, but most people just aren’t used to it yet.
And that’s especially true for gamers. If you’ve gone through the dance of tweaking BIOS settings or DDU removing drivers and reinstalling them, then you’re probably gonna do fine on Linux. The only difference is sometimes there won’t be a GUI you have to go hunt down. It will be like 3 commands someone has already written out for you that you copy/paste into the CLI. Which is WAY better in my opinion.
Pop OS
Lots of people were hyping it in 2019/2020 so I thought I’d give it a try as my first real Linux experience. It works great and has a Nvidia driver option when I need that. So I never really tried to switch.
Distro hoping never appealed to me, but I did try Fedora, Manjaro, Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian 12.
I use Kali for work and considered swapping to XFCE DE but pop is fine.
Europe is an amazing place.
Imagine living in a bedroom fit for a king
Yet playing on the world’s first “Flat screen” monitor that your grandma gave you.
Such a beautiful place.
Only 200? I see you are improving
I like a very small amount of RGB.
I didn’t always, I wanted full no color, but the ONLY GPU I could find had just a smidge of RGB in the logo (MSI something 5060 ti) and I like it as a highlight.